How to struggle with freckles

Regardless of the fact that freckles bring no physical pain or tortures to anybody, and even come into fashion periodically, when spring comes, we start struggling with these "sun splashes" actively. Very long time ago, when there were no sunscreen and bleach creams, women removed freckles and pigmental spots using, for example, bird cherry tree flowers extract, and whitened skin using lotions and creams made of cucumber.



Times change, but problem of freckles still worries both young school-girls and mature ladies.



How to prevent freckles from appearing



In this spring time there should be enough products, rich in vitamin C and PP (nicotinic acid), in your ration. Moreover, you should definitely take vitamin complexes, containing vitamins C and PP, strictly according to instruction. Include tea of dog-rose, sauerkraut, apples, lemons, oranges, spring onions, juice of red and black currant in your menu. Drink milk and kefir – at least one glass per day.



Appearance of freckles – is a natural and inevitable reaction of organism to spring increase of sun activity. Don't disregard measures of mechanic protection against spring sun – hats and umbrellas. Due to such preventive measures skin receptivity to sun becomes significantly lower.



After washing rinse your face with cold rice water, which you washed rice before boiling with, adding lemon juice (1 tea-spoon for a glass of water).



For any skin type it is useful to wash with sour milk or products, containing milk acid. This gives good whitening effect.



Before you go outside, wipe your face with a strong tea extract or sage extract, and then apply a cream with UF-filter and a layer of powder. Remember, that cream works during 3-4 hours.

In the morning and evening wipe appeared freckles with a home-made whole sour, cucumber juice, buttermilk, sauerkraut juice, a piece of onion, lemon and grapefruit juice – what suits you more and is more comfortable to cook. For better effect leave such "bleach" on your skin for 5 minutes, and then rinse with room-temperature water.



For morning washing you can prepare a bleaching ice of elder flowers extract: pour 20 g of raw material with 2 glasses of boiling water and boil on slow fire for 5 minutes. When this decoction gets cold, pour it in moulds and put in a deep-freezer. Add 2 table-spoons of flower cologne in a part of decoction and you will receive a lotion, which you can also use for wiping freckles.



Apply face packs of sour-milk products daily during 15-20 days. Smear any skin with lemon juice in the morning and evening before you apply cream. To avoid allergic reaction, apply juice with your finger-tips. If your skin is dry, try to apply juice only on freckles.



You can remove freckles yourself only using natural remedies, while complex cosmetic procedures can be made only in beauty shops or medical institutions.



Whitening face packs



For any skin type:

Mix 2 table-spoons of sour milk and 1 table-spoon of wheat (or almond) brans. Apply gruel on your skin for 20-30 minutes, remove with cotton tampon, moistened in warm water.

Mix some sour milk with cotton cheese and apply on skin for 10-15 minutes. Fat skin should be smeared with lemon juice beforehand. Remove face pack with cotton tampon, moistened in kefir or curdled milk.

Take 1 tea-spoon of cotton cheese, olive oil, milk, carrot juice, pound carefully and apply on places with freckles. 15 minutes later rinse face pack with warm water, then wipe face with a piece of ice.

A face pack of boiled and pounded pieces of pumpkin will help you to remove pigmental spots and freckles.



For normal skin:

Add several drops of vegetable oil to 2 table-spoons of pounded radish and mix carefully. Apply on skin for 5-10 minutes, rinse with warm water. It is recommended to carry out a course of 10-12 procedures with interval of several days. If you notice any slightest allergic reaction, stop applying this face pack.

Dissolve small quantity of starch with 3% hydric dioxide solution, to receive a pappy paste. Apply on skin quickly, once it dries up, rinse with water with lemon juice, smear with nourishing cream. This face pack should be used in the beginning of April, when pigmentation becomes more intensive.



For fat porous skin:

Dissolve some fresh yeast with 3% hydric dioxide solution to receive a consistence of sour cream. Apply face pack for 10-15 minutes – it is recommended while heightened pigmentation, if you have many freckles.



For dry skin:

Mix parsley cut small with small quantity of mayonnaise, apply on face for 15-20 minutes.



Lemon against freckles

While taking care of fat face skin with freckles, it is recommended to wash face in the evening with hot water with soap, rinse with cold water, dry out and wipe with lotion of mixture of one lemon juice and half-glass of vodka. This way skin is whitened, cleared and freshened.



Porous skin covered with blackheads and freckles it is recommended to wipe with toilet water made of half-lemon juice, a table-spoon of vodka and a tea-spoon of sugar.



Skin will become whitened, if you use such lotion: pour juice of half-lemon in half-glass of milk and add a table-spoon of vodka. Boil, remove scum, add 2 tea-spoons of sugar. Wipe face before going outside.

It is recommended to put slices of lemon on freckles and pigmental spots – for no longer than 10 minutes. Smear skin with fat cream beforehand.



You can use honey-lemon face pack to whiten face skin with freckles and pigmentation. Mix juice of one lemon with 2 table-spoons of liquid honey, apply on gauze tissue (in several layers) and put to face for 15-20 minutes, change tissues 2-3 times for this period. If you have dry skin, smear it with fat cream beforehand. Rinse face pack with warm water. A course of removing freckles is 15-20 face packs with intervals of several days. You can keep ready mixture in fridge up to 7 days.



Onion, potato, guelder-rose – are enemies of freckles

Juice of onions is used to fade freckles and pigmentation on face with fat and normal skin. For this in the morning and evening you need to wipe face with cotton tampon, moistened in onion juice, then smear with sour cream and rinse with warm water in 10 minutes.



Simpler way – wipe face with a cut fresh onion. You also can apply onion gruel on face.



Mix guelder-rose juice with sour cream in equal parts, apply on face and rinse with warm water in a while, then smear with melted butter.



Frozen guelder-rose juice is good for active massage, after 8-10 procedures face becomes clean and white, freckles and pigmentation disappear.



Face packs of guelder-rose berries, mixed with honey give a good whitening effect: soften berries and add a tea-spoon of honey to gruel. Apply face pack for 30 minutes, and rinse with lemon juice, diluted with water.

Such face pack whitens skin very well: grate raw potato, add several drops of olive oil or sunflower-seed oil, boiled on water bath, a table-spoon of milk and almond brans. Grind everything and apply on face for 20 minutes, then rinse and smear face with appropriate cream.



Peel off one potato, boiled in its jacket, soften, add egg yolk and lemon juice, put on water bath for heating, apply on face and cover with thick cloth. Rinse with water in 20 minutes.



All whitening face packs should be done in the evening, after them it is not recommended to go on light. To gain result, carry out 2-3 medicinal courses (each one includes 10-15 face packs) with interval of a week. If you have fat skin, apply face packs every other day, if you have dry skin – twice a week, if you have sensitive skin, you need to be careful with such drastic components, like lemon, radish, onion, horse-radish. If you notice any slightest allergic reaction, stop procedures.



Well, may be you should keep freckles?

It turns out, that women, who have freckles, are often more successful in love matters. Majority of men associate freckles on a woman's face with affecting nature and defencelessness, and this excellently agrees with defender's instinct, developed in majority of representatives of stronger sex. Anyway, women with freckles have more chances to attract and keep a tutelary and careful partner. Owners of "sun splashes", you can verify whether this is truth or not!



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